One of a Pair of Toy Song Sticks
Warlpiri
Central Australia
Northern Territory
Australia
about 1980
Wood
Overall: 11 1/4 × 13/16 × 13/16 in. (28.5 × 2 × 2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Kenneth and Sara Hale in memory of Robert Locke Hale, Class of 1931, and Floyd Orlin Hale, Class of 1903
996.44.30343.1
Geography
Place Made: Australia, Oceania
Period
20th century
Object Name
Recreational Artifact: Toy
Research Area
Oceania
Not on view
Provenance
Collected in Australia by Sarah Whitaker Hale (1932-2011) and Kenneth Locke Hale (1934-2001), 1980; given to present collection, 1996.
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